Parliamentary Government in Australia(English, Hardcover, Ward Alan J.)

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Parliamentary Government in Australia(English, Hardcover, Ward Alan J.) is written by Ward Alan J. and published by Anthem Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 178308121X (ISBN 10) and 9781783081219 (ISBN 13).

Alan J. Ward combines constitutional history and political science to compare all nine of Australia's political systems, federal, state and territorial, from colonial times to the present. Guided by a model of parliamentary government drawn from comparative politics, he considers the following key topics: the selection of the government, the prime minister and cabinet; government control of the lower house; the primacy of the lower house in bicameral systems; the head of state; the influence of Australian federalism on parliamentary government; and the growth of executive democracy in Australia. Ultimately, Ward argues that as only one of Australia's nine constitutions accurately describes parliamentary government as practiced in the country, it is a democratic imperative that the other eight be rewritten.